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The President of the Royal Society (PRS) is the elected head of the Royal Society of London. The position is now awarded to a member of the scientific community of the British Commonwealth for a period of five years, and is one of the highest honours that can be bestowed upon a scientist.^[1].

The changeover of Presidents occurs on the Royal Society Anniversary Day, the weekday on or nearest to 30 November, following the departing President's Anniversary Address.^[2]

The current President is The Lord Rees of Ludlow.

Presidents of the Royal Society

1660-1662 Robert Moray ^[3]
1662-1677 The Viscount Brouncker
1677-1680 Sir Joseph Williamson
1680-1682 Sir Christopher Wren
1682-1683 Sir John Hoskyns
1683-1684 Cyril Wyche
1684-1686 Samuel Pepys
1686-1689 The Earl of Carbery
1689-1690 The Earl of Pembroke
1690-1695 Sir Robert Southwell
1695-1698 The Earl of Halifax
1698-1703 The Lord Somers
1703-1727 Sir Isaac Newton
1727-1741 Sir Hans Sloane
1741-1752 Martin Folkes
1752-1764 The Earl of Macclesfield
1764-1768 The Earl of Morton
1768-1768 James Burrow
1768-1772 James West
1772-1772 James Burrow
1772-1778 Sir John Pringle
1778-1820 Sir Joseph Banks
1820-1820 William Hyde Wollaston
1820-1827 Sir Humphry Davy
1827-1830 Davies Gilbert
1830-1838 HRH The Duke of Sussex
1838-1848 The Marquess of Northampton
1848-1854 The Earl of Rosse
1854-1858 The Lord Wrottesley
1858-1861 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart.
1861-1871 Sir Edward Sabine
1871-1873 Sir George Biddell Airy
1873-1878 Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
1878-1883 William Spottiswoode
1883-1885 The Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, P.C.
1885-1890 Sir George Gabriel Stokes
1890-1895 The Lord Kelvin
1895-1900 The Lord Lister
1900-1905 Sir William Huggins
1905-1908 The Lord Rayleigh
1908-1913 Sir Archibald Geikie
1913-1915 Sir William Crookes
1915-1920 Sir Joseph John Thomson
1920-1925 Sir Charles Sherrington
1925-1930 The Lord Rutherford of Nelson
1930-1935 Sir Frederick Hopkins
1935-1940 Sir William Henry Bragg
1940-1945 Sir Henry Hallett Dale
1945-1950 Sir Robert Robinson
1950-1955 The Lord Adrian
1955-1960 Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
1960-1965 The Lord Florey
1965-1970 The Lord Blackett
1970-1975 Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
1975-1980 The Lord Todd
1980-1985 Sir Andrew Huxley
1985-1990 Sir George Porter
1990-1995 Sir Michael Atiyah
1995-2000 Sir Aaron Klug
2000-2005 The Lord May of Oxford
2005-present The Lord Rees of Ludlow

References

^ "Presidents of the Royal Society". The Royal Society. 2008. http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1071. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
^ "The Role of President of the Royal Society". The Royal Society. 2008. http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3005. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
^ Dudley Wright (1921). "Sir Robert Moray: The First Recorded Initiation in England". The Builder. http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/moray_r.html. Retrieved 2008-04-02.

Presidents of the Royal Society

17th Century	Robert Moray (1660) · William Brouncker (1662) · Joseph Williamson (1677) · Christopher Wren (1680) · John Hoskyns (1682) · Cyril Wyche (1683) · Samuel Pepys (1684) · John Vaughan (1686) · Thomas Herbert (1689) · Robert Southwell (1690) · Charles Montagu (1695) · John Somers (1698)

18th Century	Isaac Newton (1703) · Hans Sloane (1727) · Martin Folkes (1741) · George Parker (1752) · James Douglas (1764) · James Burrow (1768) · James West (1768) · James Burrow (1772) · John Pringle (1772) · Joseph Banks (1778)

19th Century	William Hyde Wollaston (1820) · Humphry Davy (1820) · Davies Gilbert (1827) · Prince Augustus Frederick (1830) · Spencer Compton (1838) · William Parsons (1848) · John Wrottesley (1854) · Benjamin Collins Brodie (1858) · Edward Sabine (1861) · George Biddell Airy (1871) · Joseph Dalton Hooker (1873) · William Spottiswoode (1878) · Thomas Henry Huxley (1883) · George Gabriel Stokes (1885) · William Thomson (1890) · Joseph Lister (1895)

20th Century	William Huggins (1900) · John Strutt (1905) · Archibald Geikie (1908) · William Crookes (1913) · J. J. Thomson (1915) · Charles Scott Sherrington (1920) · Ernest Rutherford (1925) · Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1930) · William Henry Bragg (1935) · Henry Hallett Dale (1940) · Robert Robinson (1945) · Edgar Adrian (1950) · Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1955) · Howard Florey (1960) · Patrick Blackett (1965) · Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1970) · Alexander R. Todd (1975) · Andrew Huxley (1980) · George Porter (1985) · Michael Atiyah (1990) · Aaron Klug (1995)

21st Century	Robert May (2000) · Martin Rees (2005)

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